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Posted by curthibbs 387 days ago
This surprised me (in hindsight, it should have been no surprise), but I had kind of assumed that piracy (the sea vessel type) was a thing of the past. I couldn’t have been more wrong: see the Piracy attacks map.
Posted by curthibbs 389 days ago
I’ve been listening to audiobooks while I commute for a long time, now, and I’ve been a customer of Audible.com for almost as long. Today, I got a pleasant surprise.
I was browsing the Audible site when I notice a link at the bottom of the page titled Work at Audible. I clicked it, curious to [...]
Posted by curthibbs 424 days ago
If there was ever an example of what is wrong with software patents, this has got to be a classic:
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT7028023&id=Szh4AAAAEBAJ&dq=linked+list
If the patent office can issue a patent for something as ubiquitous as the linked list, and do it in 2006 (nearly 40 years after Knuth described it in his Art of Computer Programming series), then [...]
Posted by curthibbs 584 days ago
Read about it here.
Posted by curthibbs 584 days ago
Through an unfortunate set of circumstances I have all of my blog posts since May 25th, 2006. To help prevent a reoccurrance, I have moved my blog to wordpress.com so I can let them take care of things like backups.
I’ve tried to find copies of my missing posts in the Google cache, and in the [...]
Posted by Curt Hibbs 654 days ago
It was just last December that Tim O’Reilly said that Ruby book sales had surpassed Python book sales. Now Ruby book sales have also surpassed Perl book sales.
Tim O’Reilly posted the graph below which shows the books sales since 2003 for the most commonly used dynamic programming languages.
Click here to see a fullsized version of the graph. Notice the rise in JavaScript book sales, too (obviously due to the popularity of Ajax).
UPDATE: Tim O’Reilly just published an annotated version of this graph (which I like even better), so I have updated this blod posting to use it.
Posted by curthibbs 655 days ago
It was just last December that Tim O’Reilly said that Ruby book sales had surpassed Python book sales. Now Ruby book sales have also surpassed Perl book sales.
Tim O’Reilly posted the graph below which shows the books sales since 2003 for the most commonly used dynamic programming languages.
Click here to see a fullsized version of [...]
Posted by curthibbs 663 days ago
Stiff sent a list of ten questions to a smattering of the world’s best programmers. This included such luminaries as James Gosling, Dave Thomas, Linus Torvalds, Guido Van Rossum, and more.
Surprisingly, most of them answered. The answers were very intesrting. You can definitely see the personalities come through in their answers. Read through the questions [...]
Posted by curthibbs 665 days ago
This really makes my day. JetBrains, the makers of the fabulous IntelliJ IDEA, are adding support (via a plugin) for Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
It was just a very brief mention at the very end of on hour long video presentation of Team Server and IntelliJ 6.
You can watch the video here. If you only [...]
Posted by curthibbs 675 days ago
Matt Griffith created a cool screencast showing how to get started with Instant Rails in under 5 minutes! Check it out here.
Posted by curthibbs 680 days ago
Videos of the RailsConf 2006 Keynote talks are becoming available for your viewing pleasure!
They were all excellent and well worth watching. So far, the keynote videos of Dave Thomas and Martin Fowler are available now, and the rest will be available soon.
Posted by curthibbs 686 days ago
I just posted this entry to O’Reilly’s Ruby blog: The Ruby Community Rocks!
I’m conflicted here about posting. Traditionally I have posted here to my blog, but I also like the idea of posting to the O’Reilly Ruby blog.
Suggestions on resolving this conflict would be appreciated!
Posted by curthibbs 694 days ago
I’m blogging about my daily experiences at RailsConf 2006 on the O’Reilly Ruby Blog. You can read about it here.
Posted by curthibbs 706 days ago
The first Ruby conference in Japan (Ruby’s homeland) just got underway. Its called RubyKaigi2006 (Kaigi means meeting or conference). Amazingly, the conference was sold out within the first hour that tickets went up for sale!
Daigo Moriwaki, one of the Japanese bloggers for RedHanded, just posted some news about day one of the conference.
The mosting interesting [...]
Posted by Curt Hibbs 713 days ago
I was pleased to see this: Starter Toolkit for DB2 on Rails.
The DB2 driver and Active Reocord adapter were developed and is maintained by the members of IBM’s DB2 team. Very nice!
Posted by curthibbs 715 days ago
Is your comapny using biometeric sensors for security? Thinking about using your thumbprint to login to your computer?
Well, before you do you should read Gummi bears defeat fingerprint sensors.
Posted by Ted 716 days ago
(Both from a month ago)
Posted by curthibbs 722 days ago
I only discovered this site a couple hours ago, but it has already become my favorite api reference site:
http://www.gotapi.com
It uses api reference material gathered dynamically from authoritative sources, and it includes api documentation for Ruby, Rails, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, DOM, and much more…
Highly recommended!
Posted by curthibbs 734 days ago
Wow! I thought I wouldn’t see this for another year. The JRuby guys got the cookbook Rails app running on JRuby (it uses an Active Record to JDBC adapter). Read all about it here.
Good work guys!
Posted by curthibbs 734 days ago
If you’re doing Ajax and any kind of JavaScript work and you don’t know about the Firebug extension for Firefox, then you are in for a real treat.
For me, Firebug is already an essential tool, but it just got better!
